Elena Pallantza

Elena Pallantza was born in Athens (1969). She attended the German School of Athens. She studied Classical Philology at the Kapodistrias University of Athens and completed her PhD on the Myth of the Trojan War in posthomeric Literature at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg in Germany. She also studied Intercultural Education at the University of Cologne. 1996-2003 she worked as a teacher of Ancient and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the German School of Athens. Since 2003 she has lived and worked in Bonn. 2005-2008 she was correspondent for Modern German Literature for the Greek literary journal Diavazo. Since 2006 she has taught Modern Greek Language and Literature at the department of Classical Philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. She is a free-lance literary translator both from Greek into German and from German into Greek. In 2013 she founded the Translation Circle LEXIS, with the aim of translating modern Greek Literature into German. She is a member of the board of the German-Greek Internet portal diablog.eu, which promotes Greek Culture in Germany. Poems, short-stories and translations by her both in Greek and in German have been published in anthologies and literary journals. 2016 she published her first book of Poetry by Perispomeni editions.